Victoria Donaldson + Jen Everett, Sonic Archive
Date: Sunday, July 9, 2023
Time: 11AM-6PM
Location: Profield Reserve, 2309 Cherokee St, St. Louis, MO 63118
Details:
Join us at Profield Reserve for an interactive workshop on the power of sound. Participants will discuss how music and sonics hold memory and narratives across time and space. We will listen and think together about how sound is passed down in families and communities and how sonics map the history of a place. Victoria Donaldson, owner of Northside Soul record shop will share her experiences as a DJ and keeper of sound, and together we will compose a collaborative mix. After the workshop, enjoy spins by the Sage DJ collective and vending by Northside Soul.
Jen Everett is an artist from Southfield, Michigan, currently based in Saint Louis, Missouri. Her practice moves between lens and time based media, installation and writing. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally at art spaces including Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Krannert Art Museum, SCAD Museum of Art, Kunsthall Stavanger, Seattle University’s Hedreen Gallery and Flux Factory. Jen has been an artist in residence at the Fire Island Artist Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Atlantic Center for the Arts and ACRE. She was a 2021-22 Duke University DocX Archive Lab fellow. Her work is in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) at Columbia College - Chicago.
Victoria Donaldson is an artist, DJ and business owner from St. Louis. She holds a degree from Alabama A&M University where she studied Graphic Communications and Art History. Since 2013, Victoria has fostered community through her work as a DJ, a community events organizer and a business owner. Victoria, who goes by Makeda Kravitz, started DJing in 2016 while hosting the radio show Rwthntc on KDHX. She has since shared her skills for organizations and spaces across the St. Louis and beyond. Currently, she is a resident DJ for the Kranzberg Foundation’s Sophie’s Artist Lounge. Victoria is also the owner of Northside Soul, an online record store rooted in North St. Louis. She also formed Creative Heritage Foundation, the private foundation of Northside Soul which aims to support BIPOC artists in the St. Louis region through grants and other opportunities.
In addition to these ventures, Victoria is the founder of Black Cinema Club, a quarterly film screening series for those with a love for Black people and film, and Sisters of the Yam Book Club, a book club geared towards books and topics that reflect on the experiences of Black women/femmes. She is also a photographer who has shown her work at The Dark Room in Grand Center.
